1. Shrub or small tree having pinnate leaves poisonous to livestock and dense racemes of intensely fragrant blue flowers and red beans
   "Ranchers had to keep their cattle away from patches of coral bean";
   - mescal bean, frijolito, frijolillo, Sophora secundiflora

Derived forms: coral beans

Type of: tree

Part of: genus Sophora, Sophora

Encyclopedia: Coral bean